Vincent Lindon as the father of a family torn apart by the extremist drift of a son

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What does French cinema, described as “social”, adapted from successful novels, tell us, with its stars “performing” workers and its young leads declassified teenagers? In a few months, we will have seen Gilles Lellouche disguised as an alcoholic proletarian, victim of the steel crisis in the Grand Est (the Lorraine basin), in Their children after them, by brothers Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma (released in theaters in December 2024). The son, played by Paul Kircher, will be the loser of the new generation. Set in the 1990s, the fresco is taken from the eponymous bestseller by Nicolas Mathieu (Actes Sud), winner of the Goncourt in 2018.

In Play with fireanother sibling film, by sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin, here is Vincent Lindon as a railway worker, in a lost corner of the Moselle – as the crow flies, not very far from the blast furnaces of the previous film. A widower and father of two sons, Pierre is worried about the eldest: Fus (Benjamin Voisin) hangs out with local identitarians, spends his time beating up the “antifas” and abandons high school where he is preparing for a professional “metalworker” baccalaureate. .

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